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Trauma is the leading cause of death in children, and therefor injury prevention efforts are paramount to reducing childhood morbidity and mortality. Since age and location effects what ways in which children are injured, this project explores the interplay between age, mechanism of injury, and whether a child was close to home or in a neighborhood with a different makeup than their own when they were injured.

To assess neighborhood characteristics, the Childhood Opportunity Index (COI) was used.

The figures below show the percent of childhood traumas with home and injury zip codes of different COI level (above) and different zip code (below). The size of the circle is the number of injuries at that age and mechanism of injury, so we can see how common different injuries are at different ages as well as how often the injury occurred near home versus further away.

Although children tended to be injured outside their home zip code as they aged, they did not tend to be injured in neighborhoods with disimilar characteristics from their home neighborhood.

Lastly, there is heterogeneity across the county in whether children injured in a zip code are more commonly residents of that zip code or travelers from elsewhere.